Agreed, working on my own codebase for over 4 years taught me more than anything else about how to design and write decent code. Its easy to blame someone else

Agreed, working on my own codebase for over 4 years taught me more than anything else about how to design and write decent code. Its easy to blame someone else for crap design / code but when its your own it forces you to think of how it could be done better.